384 LEGUMINOSZ. [ Desmodium. 
about 24 lin. long and nearly as broad, laxly net-veined and glabrous, 
except on the margins, each containing a single glossy pale-coloured 
seed. 
Has.—Frequent in the’ leaf-shedding, especially the ee and dry, forests 
all over Burma : from Ava and Martaban down to Tenasse —Fl. RS.; Fr. 
C.S.—1 
2. D. de, Kz.; H-f. Ind. Fl. ii. 162.—An erect branched 
shrub, the ra anchlets softly and shortly tawny tomentose; stipules. 
and stipulets stiff and short, linear, subulate-ac uminate e; leaves 
pinnately 3- or occasionally 1 -foliolate, on a tawny tomentose petiole 
4 to 1 in. long; leaflets 3-5 in. long, shortly petioluled, more or 
less ovate, rather long but bluntish acuminate with a mucro, entire, 
chartaceous, puber ulous above, softly and almost tawny pubescen 
beneath ; flowers forming leafy, ax axillary and terminal racemes col- 
lected in a terminal panicle, the rachis tawny tomentose ; flora 
rounded or retuse with a mucro, more or less puberulous, about an 
in. long ; pods 2-3-jointed, ees pubescent, twice as large as 
those of the preceding speci 
Has.—aAva, Irrawaddi valley se C.S. 
8. -D. vestitum, Bth.; H-f. Ind. Fl. ii. 162.—An erect: branched 
shrub, the younger branches softly tawny pubescent ; stipules 
broadly lanceolate, ee about 14 lin. its ; leaves pinnately 
3-foliolate, on a rusty or tawny tomentose 3-4 lin. long petiole ; 
flets oval or elliptical, ee petioluled, rounded or retuse, 1-2 
in. long, minutely palevcats above, appressed silky pubescent 
eath ; flowers in leafy ta tomentose racemes collected in 4 
terminal panicle ; floral ase 2-foliolate, on a tomentose about 
a line long petiole terminating in a short bristle, cordate-orbicular, 
retuse with a mucro, merase us, 3-1 in. long; calyx pubescent, 
— eolate, acuminate; pods 2-3-jointed, twice as large 
as those of D. pulchellum, ea tawny pubescent. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
4, D. triquetrum, DC.; H.f. Ind. FI. ii. 163. — Mot-so-lam-ma.— 
An erect or ey branched undershrub or shrub 2 to 4 ft. high, 
the branches sharply 3- id 4-) cornered ane more or less villous or 
pubescent on the angles; stipules scarious, linear-la neeolate, up 
to $ in. long, deciduous ; aus tctnliolate, the petiole 4-1 in. long, 
= ~ leafy-winged and produced in a sharp tooth at both sides of the 
rounded apex ; leaflets 2-5 in. ong tna oblong to oblong-lanceo- 
late, very shortly petioluled, acumi to bluntish chartaceous, 
i or slighily hispid beneath slong the nerves ; flowers flowers small, 
